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| The relationship between Marco and Angelica was so touching, and so tragic. I may or may not be crying right now... 9.5/10 |
| The little cyborgs are short lived, we're told. Just like a meteor shower, they burn bright and they're over before you know it. Still, despite the horrors surrounding their existence, there's still something beautiful about their life. This is no excuse for anything, but at least it's not all bad. On the show as a whole: I think it wasn't adapted in an ideal way; the way the stand alone stories were arranged just didn't carry as much impact as I feel they could have, potentially. While I think the storyboarding was quite good, and some of the backgrounds were very pretty, they could have used a bit more color in the visuals, and there were way too many stiff movements. The facial expressions were also severely limited, and not just on the cyborgs but on every character. This show was more often than not uncomfortable to watch, for obvious reasons, but it made me think about things from a different perspective sometimes, and there's value in that. |
| hmm.. well i guess you either think that it was a amazing ending or it was a bit lack luster. for me, i'm in the latter opinion. i disliked the ending. the past two episodes were focused on angelica and i guess for a anime that is only 13 episodes, it may be hard to wrap it up so i give the show props for that. the beethoven music, angelica's death/slumber, the meteor shower. i'm not sure now if i'll watch the second season. |
| What was Jose up to that kept him "busy"? Was he intentionally keeping his distance? His absence felt kind of weird to me at the end. This was my first time re-watching GG since it came out, and I have to say that it didn't age as well as I thought it would have. It's still good and thoughtful, and made me want to finally get around to watching S2, but I just watched the first episode last night, and... just... wow. What the heck happened? |
| The series felt pretty episodic to me as they jumped around between each girl throughout the episodes. However, the series does a good job in keeping all the girls around, even if they aren't the focus. I prefer this rather each girl having their own "arc" (like 2-3 episodes each) and then disappears if that makes any sense. The Ode to Joy singing was great! My only complaint was that they didn't do full version where the voice actresses sing the song on a CD OST release or something lol. |
| Few first episodes were quite confusing (same scenes recycle), but I like how each girl got their episode for backstory (somewhat), drama there and there spice up feelings, there is still 2nd season, I hope it will be better (score seem to be worse, but never went with scores, but with my eyes to watch till ending) |
"A half moon, it has a dark half and a bright half, just like me…", Yuno Gasai |
| I actually quite enjoyed this anime, it was a great way of showing the relationship between the girls and their handlers. Seeing the toll it takes on the girls and the handlers and the morality behind making them tools for an agency was actually quite well done. Asking itself if they actually have free will, how it affects them when out there just killing whomever they have to kill. For me it's a solid 8/10. The ending was actually quite nice imo. |
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| Oh my god, this series may not be for everyone but I really like this! And I can't help but to scream when Angelica's closing her eyes. I hope she's just sleeping! My god!!!!!!!!!! Good thing Hilshire and Alfon so supervised them with shooting stars watching. If there is a second season I'll definitely watch it. |
  ★━━─ 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺? |
| Beethoven Symphony 9 is a good song I wish I can sing it too I just know "Freude schöner Götterfunken" rests are too hard xD Sleep well Angelica :( |
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| Well that was a nice though tragic ending. Poor Angelica. Overall I was disappointed slightly by this show, it's one of the more famous shows from the era and it has beautiful animation and a wonderful soundtrack but the actual story content just wasn't that interesting to me. Or that is to say it wasn't overly engaging. After the first couple of episodes I expected for a plot to emerge, something for the characters to ultimately do. But the show became more of a character study. With each episode focusing on another girl or brother. This was fine I suppose but it wasn't overly exciting and it got stale to me. The situation was too strange and kinda silly for me to get overly melodramatic about it all. Like Small Girls, highly trained in Gun warfare, working on behalf of the government to do its dirty work? It's pretty dumb and that's before you add in the fact they were girls on deaths door brought in to the companies hospital, converted into cyborgs and brainwashed effectively to forget their past. The whole thing is bizarre. Also why only girls? Less suspicious than boys I suppose but still... Overall I kinda felt the show had the aura of thinking it was better than it actually was. Like it had some deep meaning and the shock value of the little girls murdering is some profound commentary or something. I'm probably being harsh there. It was fine but nothing overly special to me. 6/10 Hopefully Season 2 is a little more interesting even if the art isn't as good. |
I think Riko used to be a boy. |
Rico's a girl. Her tomboy looks and personality were deliberately chosen by her handler, Jean, since he regards her more as a tool of the trade than a person and purposely tries to avoid developing any sort of emotional attachment to her. As for why girls are chosen as cyborgs over boys, men are traditionally associated with being cops and terrorists. Having cute little girls as agents give the criminals the SWA confront a false sense of security in assuming the girls are harmless and non-threatening, especially in operations where the girls are usually used as bait to lure out criminals. |
ggultra2764Jul 17, 2020 5:23 AM
| I kept having the feeling that I was missing out on a deeper meaning. Each episode seemed to have an obscure art reference which might have helped me understand better. This use of classic art is a pretty lame attempt to make the show look smarter than it actually is. But then again, maybe the previous sentence is just copium from an unsophisticated swine who can't admit the themes went right over his dumb head. Overall a really interesting show. Tragic and bittersweet, but not entirely devoid of happy moments and maybe even a life affirming message buried in there somewhere. (It's mostly just depressing though.) I'll give it a 7/10 |
epidemia78Jun 25, 2022 11:28 AM
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| Beethoven's Ode to joy, fitting end for such a bittersweet moment with gladly Marco being there at Angelica's last moment. |
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| Wow, was actually not expecting it to end on a rather happy note. Or perhaps bittersweet would be more appropriate, since Ange is most likely in fact dead. At least it looks like she passed on in peace, watching the meteor shower. As for Marco, we see that not all handlers are dicks who are more soulless than their cyborg companions, and there's hope in that. Not saying that this show did not carry any weight to it, but considering its premise, I was expecting a bit more substance. Again, I had just finished Standalone Complex, so having that fresh in my mind might be the case for my unreasonable expectations. Still, it's a bit forgettable on my part, and just a tad shallow. I think there certainly was room for it to pack a bit more of a punch. And not that this should be the primary focus or anything, but even though it is a more grounded show with none of that cutesy cutesy stuff, it still is a girls with guns anime, and the gunplay was mostly static. Maybe I should just stop thinking of other titles totally different from this, like Lycoris Recoil, which had quite stellar choregraphy. Will watch at least the first episode of the 2nd and last season, "Il Teatrino", since it seems Triela who was the best part of this show is our main lead there, but if it's simply more of the same, I think I'll leave it at that. I hope the odd soul who sees this at least enjoyed this more than I did. |
  NYANPASU  whiskey tango foxtrot |
| Overall I think this series was okay. There were moments where I was pretty close to dropping it because it just felt really boring. I had to force myself to finish some episodes, and in some cases I just wasn't that interested. I think this show is like a 6 for me. Better than a 5, but I can't really give it anything higher |
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| God that ending was perfect for me, I know there's a second season and I'm buying the DVD for sure when I get paid, really excited to watch that but gosh what a simultaneously tragic yet beautiful ending. For once they all finally got to be what they should've been in the first place. Kids. All singing that wonderful song, smiling with joy and goofing around. I'm happy angelica died with Marco by her side too, and I'm glad he realized in her final moments that he needed to be there for her, tragic that he didn't come to that realization sooner. Hearing him read the story to her one last time as she watched the stars and slowly faded away made my heartache. Most of the unanswered questions I had were almost perfectly wrapped up here, there's still so much more after this, the manga that's 100 chapters and the second season of course. The game too which I'll be playing tonight. I'm just in awe at how much I love this show and everything it does. This one's gonna stick with me for a long looongggg time. |
| I watched some of this when I was a kid, but I don't think I had the knowledge I knew now to understand where the anime was going. I think I had maybe seen only the first two or three episodes and wrote Gunslinger Girl off as just kinda an excuse to have girls with guns. However, now that I'm older and was able to rewatch from the beginning, it's just interesting to see how my perspective changed. I started to delight in the prospect of delving into the humanity of these characters-- something my younger self at the time I first watched this probably wouldn't have cared about... or really, wouldn't have realized that's what I cared about. I was just watching anything back then and didn't know what I actually valued, after all. I was really happy with the character interactions in this. I can't get them off of my mind. None of them are particularly the same or without reason. Most characters feel differently about each other and for really different, often relatively nuanced ways. The situation lends itself to a pretty large pool of opinions, so it's just interesting to see how they all come together-- or fall apart (within the story)! I actually really liked most of our girls except for maybe Angelica. Not gonna lie, I thought she was a separate personality of Claes or something for the longest time, so I was a little confused for a bit. Marco and Raballo even kinda look similar except for the glasses and the cane, so that thew me off even more. I thought maybe we were going back in time or something, man I dunno. Actually, one gripe Ive had is that a lot of the characters look pretty similar. I was even getting Henrietta and Rico mixed up for a very short time-- that one's confusion didn't last long, promise. Anyway, despite that, I did enjoy most of our main characters, came to find how they interacted with others and their situations to be interesting, and so on. As a kid, I thought this was more an anime to watch if you really wanted to see folks gunned down. I definitely wouldn't describe it like that at all now. I very much enjoyed how the girls slowly started becoming closer and exploring their own humanity every now and then. And I have to say, Triella's presence within the group was so reassuring. A lot of the girls would come off as very robotic, which very much was the point, but I always appreciated how Triella just kinda did her thing and grew into her own personality despite still being devoted to Wilshire. I think through her, the other girls were able to see that they could grow into their own selves a bit more too, so the finale with them singing together felt very earned for me. Overall, nice anime. Wasn't expecting that. |
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